Palestinians being gassed and under live fire from Israeli troops at the Gaza border with Israel

PROSECUTE ISRAEL! – Erekat urges International Criminal Court

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THE Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) has slammed Israel’s new land grab plans, urging the International Criminal Court (ICC) to speed up its investigation into...
Junior doctors, members of the BMA, demonstrate against the government imposed Medical Training Application Service leaving thousands without posts. The latest government move threatens GPs

BROWN PRIVATISING GPs! – BMA leaders condemn policy

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The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday repeated its concerns that the government is out to privatise GP surgeries. A spokeswoman told News Line: ‘The BMA...

DEFY THE BAN! – Join Saturday’s National March for Palestine!

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TRADE UnIONS, MPs and celebrities have condemned the attempt by the Metropolitan Police to ban this Saturday’s National March for Palestine from assembling outside...
Nurses on the Save the NHS march last month are now preparing all-out strike action over wages

270,000 Nurses consider taking strike action!

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MORE than a quarter of a million nurses could be balloted in May for immediate strike action to smash the Tory pay freeze. The...

Guys & St Thomas’ theatre nurses are set to take strike action over dangerous...

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GUYS and St Thomas’ theatre nurses are to strike over a dangerous rise in hours. Burnt out nurses warn that a further hour extension to...
Maternity unit workers on last July’s North East London Council of Action demonstration against the closure of Chase Farm Hospital

End PFI at the Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital

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The Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, is ‘costing £18 million a year too much’ and is due to cost more than £800 million...

Osborne hammers poor!

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CHANCELLOR Osborne launched his vicious class war budget yesterday, signalling massive Tory attacks on the working class, with the young and the poor his...
Official TSSA picket at Rayners Lane yesterday where it was pointed out that the safety of passengers was the big issue

XMAS TRUCE ON THE TUBE – offer by TSSA & RMT

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A CHRISTMAS truce in the Tube dispute was offered today as millions of travellers faced another day of strike action. Speaking at...
GPs and their supporters with their main banner showing that they are determined to fight to maintain and defend the NHS

‘GPs will have to strike to save our surgeries!’

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OVER 200 patients, health professionals, union members and campaigners marched through east London yesterday against cuts to GP surgeries which threaten the closure of...

£12bn NI RISE MUST GO AHEAD! – say Johnson and Sunak

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THE £12bn rise in National Insurance Contributions (NIC) from April is ‘the right plan’ and ‘must go ahead’, Boris Johnson and Chancellor Rishi Sunak...

Sparks halt St Paul’s traffic

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HUNDREDS of angry electricians halted the traffic for 20 minutes outside St Paul’s Cathedral in central London yesterday morning, during their latest demonstration against...
Midwives and nurses taking strike action last month – they are not prepared to put up with permanent wage-cutting and pension busting

Cuts and more cuts from Osborne!

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CHANCELLOR Osborne delivered a class war Autumn Statement yesterday which revealed Tory plans to completely smash up the Welfare State. Starting with a gloomy assessment...
The NHS march earlier this month – the newly imposed junior doctors’ contract threatens the next generation of A&E doctors

A&E ‘special measures regime’ – A&Es threatened with closures across UK

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‘WE SIMPLY don’t have enough doctors working in emergency departments,’ the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) said yesterday adding that, ‘our emergency departments...
Trade unionists, community groups and musicians rallied outside parliament yesterday against the abolition of public bodies

Unions Fight ‘Political Vandalism!’

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Westminster MPs heard calls for the government to ‘Stop, Listen and Think Again’, as trade unionists and community groups lobbied Parliament asking them...
Locked out Gate Gourmet workers speak with their TGWU shop steward outside the Heathrow plant at the weekend. They have been locked  out since August 10, demanding full reinstatement on their original terms and conditions

We want action not words from TUC

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LOCKED-OUT Gate Gourmet workers, boosted by their successful intervention at the TUC in Brighton on Monday, are calling for immediate reinstatement or action to...
Junior doctors recently came out to defend the whole of the NHS – they were allowed to fight alone

‘General Practice–is in danger of going under!’

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HELEN Stokes-Lampard, chair of the Royal College of GPs Council, the UK’s leading doctor, warned yesterday that General Practice is in danger of...
Young mother GLEISA LIMA with her one month-old baby Victoria joined the West London Council picket of Ealing Hospital to demand the hospital’s Maternity Department be reopened

Reopen Ealing Maternity!

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‘MY BABY Victoria was born at Ealing Hospital and is one month old today,’ said mother Gleisa Lima outside the hospital yesterday morning. She...

Huckabee OKs Israeli expansion from the Nile to the Euphrates!

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The Hamas Movement has strongly denounced US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee’s claim that Israel has biblical rights over the Arab region and his...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers lobbying TGWU Executive Committee members demanding that their hardship payments be maintained while they are fighting for their reinstatement

Save Our Babies!

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‘Who will deliver our babies?’ asked an alarmed Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) yesterday. It issued three stark warnings: ‘Unless recruitment improves there...

‘We are meeting at the point of a worldwide explosion of capitalism’ – says...

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‘WE ARE meeting today in a period where the world crisis of capitalism has reached the point of explosion,’ All Trades Unions Alliance National...
Marchers on the last silent walk on November 14th demanded that those responsible for the Grenfell inferno be held to account

Grenfell fire ‘could have been put out with an extinguisher’ – Outrageous claim by...

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CLADDING which burst into flames up the side of Grenfell Tower ‘could have been put out with a simple extinguisher’, cladding company Arconic has...

Israeli war planes bomb Jabaliya refugee camp! – scores of children are killed

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ISRAELI warplanes bombed the Al Jabaliya refugee camp again yesterday morning, killing scores of children, burying them in their homes. Extending just one square kilometre,...

‘Tory Sleaze Bigger Than Ever!’

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‘TORY SLEAZE is bigger than ever,’ Labour’s Shadow Chancellor for the Duchy of Lancaster Rachel Reeves said yesterday after senior Tory MP Bernard Jenkin...

Barristers strike gains support

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‘OUR CRIMINAL justice system is in crisis, it’s no exaggeration to say it’s in meltdown,’ Criminal Bar Association (CBA) Chairman Jo Sidhu QC told...

‘STAND FIRM, SUPPORT THE ACTION’ – RMT leader Lynch urges rail workers

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‘STAND FIRM, support the action and mount the pickets,’ RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch urged his members defiantly yesterday afternoon as he confirmed that...

‘Genocide Joe Has Got To Go!’ Says US Working Class

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TENS of thousands are mobilising to surround the White House on June 8th in protest against Biden’s complicity in the Israeli genocide in Gaza,...
Health workers demonstrating against NHS cuts and privatisation in Nottingham last September

Stoke-On-Trent NHS Beds Crisis

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University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust is urging people to avoid using the Accident and Emergency department at weekends because of the pressure...

UCU holds strike rally as 17 FE colleges stop work

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The University and College Union (UCU) held a strike rally of over 150 members from across the country at the Emmanuel Centre on Marsham...
London demonstrators voice their support for the Palestinian people after the massacre of international aid acitivists at the hands of Israeli commandos as they tried to sail to the besieged Gaza Strip a year ago with food, medicines and other vital suppl

‘TIME FOR FREEDOM HAS COME!’ – 11 killed hundreds injured in Palestine

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ELEVEN Palestinians were killed and over 200 wounded when Israeli troops opened fire as Palestinians stormed the occupied Golan Heights and demonstrators...
Nurses and junior doctors demonstrating against the attempt by Hunt to impose a contract. Both sections condemn Hunt’s thoughtless cuts

‘CUTS WITHOUT THOUGHT’ – condemned by RCN nurses

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‘THIS report highlights yet another case of cuts without thought for the impact on staff and patients,’ said Stephanie Aiken, RCN Deputy Director of...

Ingram misled parliament over Baha Mousa hooding

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ADAM Ingram – Armed Forces Minister during the British occupation of southern Iraq in 2003 – has admitted wrongly informing MPs that Baha Mousa...

Action Ballot At Asda Wal-Mart

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THERE will be ballots for industrial action at ASDA Wal-Mart, after talks with senior managers in the shops on Wednesday 8th, and depots on...

Abusive MI5 agent’s identity cannot be revealed says judge

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THE BBC is to be prevented from naming a man it says exploited his status as an MI5 agent to abuse a partner and...
Up and down the country parents, teachers and pupils are marching to defend state education against the coalition’s ‘Free School’ bonanza for the rich, and the big business dominated academies

£2m ‘Free School’ with 68 pupils

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THREE thousand Beccles residents have demanded to know why £2m of taxpayers money is being spent on a ‘Free School’ with only 68 pupils. The...

NO TO CREEPING PRIVATISATION! – UCU tells government

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THE University and College Union (UCU) yesterday wrote to the University and Colleges Employers’ Association (UCEA) to ask the employers to act to...

House price inflation reaches 8.4%

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RETAIL Price Index (RPI) inflation, which includes housing costs, grew by 2.8% in the year ending January 2014, up from 2.7% in December 2013. This...

‘Our NHS is under siege!’

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THERE was a lively and enthusiastic picket of over 50 striking NHS workers at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel east London, yesterday morning. Speaking...
Rally of short term ‘Stage’ training workers in Athens last Tuesday

Clashes In Athens

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Clashes broke out yesterday between police and demonstrators across Greece as marchers commemorated the first anniversary of the fatal police shooting of 15-year-old Alexis...

LEBANON ERUPTS! – on the anniversary of port explosion

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HUNDREDS of Lebanese marched to mark the first anniversary of the Beirut port explosion that killed more than 200 people. Lebanese police clashed with angry...

Chinese fury over Tory plan to kick Huawei out of UK!

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‘WHETHER the UK can provide an open, fair and non-discriminatory business environment for Chinese companies is a litmus test for British markets after Brexit,...
Yesterday afternoon’s angry protest against the Channel 4 programme ‘Benefits Street’ insisting that it be taken off the air

‘Take Benefits Street off the air!’

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PROTESTERS from across the UK gathered outside the offices of the production company behind Channel 4’s cynical ‘Benefits Street’ at 3pm yesterday, to protest...

‘We are marching to defend the NHS’ say striking junior doctors

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AMID a heatwave in the heart of London, hundreds of junior doctors converged at Tavistock Square for a march from BMA House to Parliament...
Gate Gourmet workers campaigning against their sacking by venture capitalist Texas Pacific at the recent TGWU biennial conference

Bank Hints At Rate Rises To Come

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‘It is too soon to tell how far the disruption in financial markets will impair the availability of credit to companies and households,’ said...

‘Dangerous consequences’ – Hamas warns Israel over executing prisoners

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THE Hamas Resistance Movement has warned of the ‘dangerous consequences’ of the racist law passed by the Israeli Knesset authorising the death penalty for...
Disabled people blocked the road in a protest at Marble Arch, after last Saturday’s TUC demonstration, against the way they are treated

Workhouse Master Duncan Smith Attacks Poor

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PCS civil servants union general secretary Mark Serwotka yesterday slammed Work and Pensions secretary Duncan Smith’s speech attacking youth, families and the unemployed. Serwotka said:...